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Interviews: Mark Kozelek
Mark Kozelek's work has felt important since he began recording with Red House Painters in the early 90s. I have clear memories of discussing my favorite "sad songs" with my friends during that period,...
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Interviews: Gesaffelstein
Just hours before New York City rings in 2014, the frenchman born Mike Lévy is not in celebratory mode. He shuffles around his room in Manhattan’s trendy Standard Hotel, groggy and moody, wearing...
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Guest Lists: Hiss Golden Messenger
Photo by Harlan CampbellGuest List features some of our favorite artists filling us in on some of their favorite things, along with other random bits. Today, we're speaking with M.C. Taylor of Hiss...
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Photo Galleries: On Tour With Mutual Benefit
Mutual Benefit's Jordan Lee Photo by: Whitney Lee Late last year, the folk-pop act Mutual Benefit toured through Ohio, where band leader Jordan Lee grew up. The familial trip included a stop at Lee's...
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Show No Mercy: Slough Feg
Mike Scalzi formed Slough Feg as The Lord Weird Slough Feg (the name of a villain in a British comic book series) in Pennsylvania in the late 1980s, but the group’s most associated with San Francisco,...
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The Out Door: Genres of One
In this edition of The Out Door, we explore the idea of music connected by something other than genre, and talk to three artists who have carved out categories of their own through their many projects...
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Photo Galleries: CTM Festival
Helena Hauff at Berghain during the CTM Festvial Photo by: Tonje Thilesen This year marked the 15th anniversary of Berlin's CTM Festival, which largely showcases progressive electronic music and visual...
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Articles: Massive Nights: Ten Years of the Hold Steady
by Jeremy D. LarsonFebruary 10, 2014 Photo by: James Kendi Craig Finn heaves his whole body toward the crowd just as the chorus to “Southtown Girls” hits, nearly toppling into the front row. Five spent...
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Update: Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks
Photos by Atiba JeffersonWhen I last spoke with Dave Portner, aka Avey Tare, he had just relocated from his longtime New York City home to live in Los Angeles before the release of Animal Collective's...
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Paper Trail: Experiencing Nirvana
Kurt Cobain at the Piper Club in Rome, Italy, on November 27, 1989. Photo by Bruce Pavitt.Bruce Pavitt learned from isolation. In the early 80s, he saw how punk and new wave bands in secluded scenes...
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Rolling on Dubs: Blind Date: Odd Squad's Fadanuf Fa Erybody
Odd Squad, from left: Rob Quest, Devin the Dude, and Jugg MuggThe mid-90s saw the release of an incredible number of important hip-hop albums—Rolling on Dubs revisits one of these records each month,...
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Guest Lists: Evian Christ
Photo by Tonje Thilesen Evian Christ: "Salt Carousel" on SoundCloud. Guest List features artists filling us in on some of their favorite things, along with other random bits. This time, we spoke with...
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Articles: St. Vincent: Reckless Precision
by Ryan DombalFebruary 17, 2014 Photo by: Renata Raksha At the beginning of her fourth album as St. Vincent, Annie Clark is running and sweating and naked and alone. Well, not completely alone. There's...
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Starter: Todd Terje: 15 Essential Rarities
Photo by Christian BelgauxStarter offers introductions to artists, scenes, styles, or labels of the past, plus a playlist.Nearing a decade on from his earliest singles, Norway’s Terje Olsen is finally...
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Update: Linda Perhacs
Linda Perhacs: "River of God" on SoundCloud. The Inn of Seventh Ray, an establishment in Southern California's bohemian mecca of Topanga Canyon, seems like it was built with Linda Perhacs' mystical...
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Rising: Isaiah Rashad
Isaiah Rashad: "Shot U Down" on SoundCloud. "I like to write in the car," says Los Angeles-via-Chattanooga rapper Isaiah Rashad, whose new Cilvia Demo EP is named for a busted '95 Honda Civic he used...
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Update: Duck Sauce
Photos by Jonathan MannionThe biggest surprise of last year's Governor's Ball festival in New York City wasn't anything headliner Kanye West said, or the impossibly shitty weather. It was a duck....
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Update: EMA
“I’m just 22/ I don’t mind dying,” Erika M. Anderson sang on “California”, a smoldering tone poem off her 2011 debut Past Life Martyred Saints. She was not, in fact, 22—the line was a reference to Bo...
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Overtones: Word Is Bond: Black Hippy and the Power of Repetition
Overtones is a column that examines how certain sounds linger in our minds and lives.The first cellular bits of rap music I loved were phrases: "Wine and women and song and such"; "The rude Redman rip...
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Articles: Real Estate: Suburban Dreams
by Larry FitzmauriceFebruary 27, 2014 Photo by: Shawn Brackbill How chill is too chill? For Real Estate, the band that's spent the last five years redefining the meaning of "laid-back," the breaking...
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